Column: A time when passed note, rather than text messages, filled school days

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Column: A time when passed note, rather than text messages, filled school days

Harris Blackwood

For The Times

Updated: Aug 27, 2021, 10:36 PM

Published: Sep 10, 2021, 7:53 PM

I can’t get excited about the end of summer until, at least, Labor Day. When I was a kid, we didn’t start to school until the Tuesday after Labor Day. I don’t remember wearing shorts to school. I had new jeans and khakis. I had new sneakers that Mama bought for me to wear to Vacation Bible School.

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Column: Then and now: What’s in a name?

Harris Blackwood

For The Times

Published: Mar 6, 2025, 7:07 PM

I find it unusual that we allow children to name grandparents and dogs. My mother has been dead for years and she wanted to be called Grandmother.

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